ARIA’S END OF 2014 ALBUMS CHART

Ed Sheeran’s album ‘X’ was officially Australia’s most popular in 2014, with the team at ARIA confirming that the British performer’s second album finishes at No.1 on their top 100 albums chart for the year. It’s an impressive feat, but even more impressive is that his previous album ‘+’ finishes in the No.38 position, despite being released three and a half years ago.Familiar faces dot the top ten; Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ finishes in the runners-up position, followed by the ‘Frozen’ soundtrack, the INXS best-of (sales of which exploded earlier in the year on the back of Channel 7’s mini-series) and Coldplay’s ‘Ghost Stories’.Aussies Hilltop Hoods and Human Nature round out the top ten in positions nine and ten.Into the second half of the countdown… and from the pop world, Jess Mauboy’s ‘Beautiful’ is at No.51, Rüfüs’ ‘Atlas’ finishes at No.58 and Dean Ray’s gold-selling self-titled debut (No.75) out-performs Guy Sebastian’s ‘Madness’ (No.78) and Marlisa’s ‘Marlisa’ (No.83).